VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2012-0828

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability4.28%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-02-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Xchat-WDK before 1499-4 (2012-01-18) xchat 2.8.6 on Maemo architecture could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xchat client crash) or execute arbitrary code via a UTF-8 line from server containing characters outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references